Alex Frieden
Senior Director, Data & AI Strategy Lead
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Frieden is a Senior Director and data/AI strategy leader with 12 years of hands-on experience applying bioinformatics and engineering to clinical genomics and agricultural biotech. He has built and scaled cross-functional teams and platforms—from clinical NGS pipelines and variant stores to LIMS, ELN, and award-nominated predictive design systems—bridging lab and field data to accelerate product decisions. Comfortable at the intersection of cloud, HPC, ML, and full-stack software, he led a data practice that grew from one engineer to thirty and delivered service-oriented WDL pipeline architectures in production. His background includes running cancer diagnostics analytics at leading hospitals and architecting multi-terabyte clinical variant stores, reflecting both domain depth and operational rigor. Based in Somerville, MA, he combines academic training in quantitative biology and mathematics with a track record of shipping robust, auditable systems that translate complex genomics into actionable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Dover Sherborn Regional High SchoolUMass LowellMaster of Science - MS, Mathematics, Master of Science - MS, Mathematics at Louisiana State UniversitySM2, left for startup, Computational Biology, Quantitative Genetics, and Biostatistics, SM2, left for startup, Computational Biology, Quantitative Genetics, and Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (117)
k8s10
batch-processing10
linode9
application9
command-line-interface9
gcp9
hpa9
mlops9
cloud-native9
amazon-web-services9
machine-learning9
aws9
bioinformatics9
kubernetes9
argo9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alexfrieden/biostats_r_code
Nov 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:15 commits, 1 PR, 51 pushes in 11 months
rstats
alexfrieden/familytree
Jun 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 1 push in 1 year 2 months
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